- Date
- October 18, 1991, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eagle River, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9SXLassiter Swearingen SX300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911018047259A
- Case key
- 15242
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Probable cause
The partial loss of engine power, for reasons undetermined which resulted in an aborted takeoff and eventual overrun and landing gear collapse.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot of the amateur built airplane indicated that on takeoff roll the engine misfired and he aborted the takeoff. The pilot was unable to stop the airplane on the remaining runway and the airplane overran the end of the takeoff runway. The landing gear collapsed during the overrun. A subsequent examination failed to reveal the nature of the partial power loss.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9SX
- Reported as
- Lassiter Swearingen SX300 (SWEARINGEN)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 68
- Airframe hours
- 70
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kendall, Robert J.
- Registered owner
- Kendall, Robert J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000 · 70 hours before
- Airport
- EGV · Eagle River Union, runway 22, 5,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 415 total · 36 in this make and model · 283 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RHI, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.